Chris Gayle Birthday, Real Name, Age, Weight, Height, Family, Facts, Contact Details, Wife, Affairs, Bio & More

Chris Gayle is cricketer, plays international cricket for the West Indies and famous as all rounder. He is best known for his long sixes and the coolest attitude of his while playing. Gayle is so good with his batting and holds many world records.
Chris Gayle is fourth batsman after Virender Sehwag, Brian Lara and Sir Donald Bradman, to have recorded two Test triple hundreds. First time in 2005, when he scored 317 against South Africa and Second in 2010, when he scored 333 against Sri Lanka. In 2013 Chris Gayle made the record of fastest T20 century in 30 balls while playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore against Pune Warriors in IPL.
He held one more record of Highest score in world cup by scoring 215 runs, later this record was broken by Brendon McCullum of New Zealand, by scoring 237 off 163 balls unbeaten against West Indies.
Chris Gayle also held one more record by hitting a six on the first ball of a Teat match. And many more…………………

Chris Gayle was born on 21 September 1979 at Kingston, Jamaica in a catholic family. His father Dudley Gayle was a policeman and his mother made a living by selling peanuts and other snacks in the neighborhood. The second youngest of seven children, used to live on St James Street, Rollington with their family. He had schooling from Excelsior High School at Jamaica but could not attend college. He was so much passionate about cricket, that in age of 14 he used to hit centuries against adults. He made his West Indies 'A' team debut at school level.

Gayle and his partner Natasha Berridge are parents of a girl Blush, born on 20 April 2016.

• Gayle started his cricket career with the famous Lucas Cricket Club in Kingston, Jamaica. In 1998 stated playing domestic cricket for Jamaica.
• Chris Gayle made his international debut from One Day International (ODI) in 1999 in Canada against India and in 2000 Test debut against Zimbabwe. He got recognition when he and his opening partner scored 214 against Zimbabwe, established the record and Chris Gayle scored 175 in that match. In 2002 along with Brian Lara and Vivian Richards he also scored 1000 runs in a year.
• In his 16 years journey of One day International he made many records. He scored 9,221 runs in 269 matches with 22 centuries, 47 half centuries and 37.33 run rate.
• He played test matches for 14 years as his last match was in 2014. In his Test match Journey of 103 matches he scored 7,214 with top score 333.
• He made debut in T20 international in February 16, 2006 against New Zealand. Up to now he had played 46 matches in which he scored 1506 runs with top score of 117 runs.
• Chris Gayle plays in IPL T20 and made a record of highest individual score of 175 not out in 66 balls and fastest century in 30 balls in same match.
• Chris Gayle also played in Champions League Twenty20, later in 2014 league was scrapped.
• Chris Gayle plays in Bangladesh Premier League (BPL 20) where he is a highly paid cricketer.
• He plays in many other leagues like KFC Big Bash League (BBL) of Australia, Sri Lanka Premier League and Pakistan Super League.
• He plays domestic cricket for Jamaica.

Other Activities:
• Restaurant: Chris Gayle is owner of a Triple Century 333 Sports Bar Restaurant, which is symbol of his highest score of 333 in International Test Series. Restaurant is located on Knutsford Boulevard, Kingston, Jamaica.
• Book Author: Chris Gayle released a Book "Six Machine: I Don't Like Cricket... I Love It," published by Penguin Random House all over the world. This book is Biography of Chris Gayle and has written it with Tom Fordyce, chief BBC sports writer.
• Chris Gayle Academy: Chris Gayle Academy is in Jamaica as well as in London. Both academies are run as a partnership between The Chris Gayle Foundation and The Change Foundation.

Man of the Match:

• Test cricket: 8 times
• One-Day International cricket: 23 times
• Twenty20 International cricket: 9 times

Man of the Series:

• Test cricket: 1 time
• One-Day International cricket: 7times
• Twenty20 International cricket: 2 times

In IPL Chris Gayle is the only player up to 2016 who wear Orange Cap for two times.

• First time in 201, when he scored 608 runs in 12 matches while playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore.
• Second time in 2012, when he scored 733 in 15 matches while playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Chris Gayle has a record of 4 times winner of Indian Premier League Maximum Sixes.